Aug 2, 2009

My giant zucchini that I picked from my garden today inspired me to try a new zucchini recipe. I have tons of zucchini recipes on my site that I rotate frequently but I've never tried baking bread with it. I found this recipe on Eating Well and reduced the sugar to 1 cup. This recipe replaced most of the fat with apple sauce so it's low in fat, yet is very moist. If you don't like nuts, you can replace them with chocolate chips.

Whisk eggs, sugar, applesauce, oil, vanilla and melted chocolate in another large bowl until blended. Add the dry ingredients and stir with a rubber spatula until just combined. Fold in zucchini and walnuts. Pour the batter into the prepared pans.

Bake the loaves 55 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes. Invert onto rack and cool completely.

Can you make further substitutions such as replacing the whole eggs with whites or egg substitute and using splenda instead of sugar? I'm unsure sometimes whether it won't work, or if for some reason you don't take the substitutions further.

PERFECT! i have been searching out a chocolate zuke recipe, and you have provided !

will be trying this recipe this weekend with my mum (perhaps with a few alterations)

was the baked bread easy to remove? i know some lower fat recipes get stuck in the tin quite easily, i really want to use a bundt mold, but not if its a bit of a crumbley bread :) i will opt for muffin tins if so!

@anonymous - Baking is a science so I'm not sure what wil happen if you replace the eggs with egg beaters. I've replaced eggs before and had good results and bad, so you would have to test it. Replacing the eggs wouldn't change the points much, it's less than a half a point per slice.

As far as the sugar, I'm sure using the Splenda blend would be fine.

@fattymcbutterpants- not really, with the eggs it totals .375 points per slice.

Just made this recipe, using the chocolate chips instead of nuts, as you suggested. So yummy! I know the kids will be excited. My first two attempts (other recipes from other sites) didn't go so well. This one is perfect. Just the right amount of sugar and moist but not mushy. Thank you Gina! This recipe is a keeper and is going in my recipe box!

I just found your blog and am so impressed with it. I'm sure I'll be coming here often. I have a question about this recipe though...does this recipe make 16 servings or 32 servings? Up above, Laurie stated that each loaf is supposed to be sliced into 16 slices, but at the top of the recipe it says this recipe makes 16 servings. Two loaf pans would make 32 servings if I'm reading this correctly. I'm a little confused.

Thank you in advance for clarifying this for me...I am very excited to try this recipe out. It sounds delicious.

I also have zuccini going crazy in the garden so I appreciate all the zuccini recipes! I tried this bread and it was great! Next time I will trade the nuts for chocolate chips and it will taste very similar to the giant chocolate muffins at Costco.

I have just found your website and really love it. I have already made a couple things that turned out great! I made these today in muffin form and gave them to 3 6 yr old boys as after school snacks. They loved them and one boy ate 2! Then my 9 yr old came home with a friend and they both loved them!! Thank you for the great recipes.

I made a double batch this weekend and used 1 cup sugar and 1 cup splenda. I made muffins. It was great and my family thinks they are cupcakes!!!! next batch I plan to use all splenda. Will post that when I do

Thank you so much for the recipe! Would love to know the ProPoints+ value as well. I added just one cup of zucchini and 2 bananas and made 32 small muffins. They turned out amazing! Definitely going to give it to my toddler as he refuses to eat veggies and bananas!

I really wanted to try this but was missing a few ingredients (eggs, oil and applesauce)... luckily I was in the mood to experiment because it was great!! I used one egg and 1/2 cup egg beaters in place of the eggs and 1/2 cup applesauce, 1 tbs oil (that was all I could get out of the bottle!) and 1/2 cup fat free vanilla pudding instead of the 3/4 cup applesauce and 1/4 cup oil. Its great! The sugar is a bit higher from the pudding, but there is hardly any fat in it. I also used chocolate chips and it really tastes like a yummy chocolate muffin! THANKS!!! This is my new favorite blogsite!! :)

I know this is an older recipe but I have a question. Do you squeeze out the excess liquid in the zucchini or just grate 2 cups and add? Thanks! (My family has tried lots of recipes and loved most of them! I've been following your pictures on Instagram for your upcoming book..can't wait.)

I tried this recipe for the first time last night. It's already a HUGE hit in my family. I love the way applesauce moistens the bread and it's delicious with the chocolate chips. Thanks for such an amazing blog!

This recipe worked very good, I made mine with brown sugar instead of white and 1/2 mini chocolate chips instead of nuts and baked it as a large bunt cake instead of 2 loaves. I cooked it slightly hotter in a 350 oven for 50 mins and it turned out perfactly.

I don't know if a person can get tired of hearing this, but you are awesome! I'm not on WW, but as the cook for the family, I've been trying to make healthier choices. I made this yesterday and the only change I made was using half sugar/half Splenda and I left out the nuts. It was fabulous. I'm actually thinking of making this my go-to recipe for chocolate cake. That is how moist and delicious it is. Up next, the turkey chili!

Husband came home with GIANT ZUCCHINI from someone at work. This is in the oven NOW..... i used the bread loaves pan recommended, but they only filled 1/2. Hoping this wont effect baking time. Used 1/2 c sugar instead of 1c..... and 1 c spelt flour in place of w wheat. Anxious to taste when it comes out!

Delicious! Turned these into muffins instead and used chocolate chips instead of nuts due to allergies. I easily get 24 muffins which reduces the points to 3+ pts per muffin. Yum! Even my zucchini hating toddler gobbled them down and told everyone he got chocolate cupcakes for breakfast! I just smiled.

Hey there! Love your site. I know this is an old recipe, I just wanted to let you (and anyone else who cares) know that I just plugged it into the WW Recipe Builder and it came up as 5 points+ per slice, with no substitutions - I did use chocolate chips instead of nuts, but the points plus were at 5 before I added them. I double-checked my ingredients list but will never rule out the possibility that I entered something incorrectly! Thanks!

OMG I made this last weekend while my parents were visiting - everyone LOVED it! Even my mom who is super picky. It was so moist and flavorful!! Loved it!! I recommend making sure you have someone to share it with before baking, or you may eat it all by yourself. ;) I will definitely make this again!

I'm not sure what happened! I followed the recipe exactly but the first loaf has just come out the oven and it's still gooey in the middle, even though it's been cooking for a lot longer than the time stated. It also tastes really bland and horrible :(

Great recipe. My 4-year-old helped me make it this morning and both he and my 2-year-old loved it (me, too). We used chocolate chips and it was delicious. I wasn't able to fill two bread pans, though. I filled one half way and there was enough left for about 6 muffins. My son is already asking me to make this again.